Mead Johnson knew its infant formula posed an increased risk of a devastating gut disease to premature babies but "muddied the waters" instead of sounding a clear warning, leaving doctors without crucial information while caring for an infant who ultimately died from the illness, his mother's attorney told an Illinois federal jury Monday.
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Mead Johnson Pushed Formula Knowing Risks, Jury Told

By Celeste Bott

Mead Johnson knew its infant formula posed an increased risk of a devastating gut disease to premature babies but "muddied the waters" instead of sounding a clear warning, leaving doctors without crucial information while caring for an infant who ultimately died from the illness, his mother's attorney told an Illinois federal jury Monday.

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7th Circ. Reverses Alcoa Union Retirees' Lifetime Benefits Win

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Seventh Circuit reversed an Indiana federal court's decision holding that certain union retirees of aluminum giant Alcoa and their beneficiaries had a vested right to health benefits for life, finding error with the lower court's judicial estoppel analysis that formed the basis for its judgment on liability.

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3 Firms Steer Madison Air On $5.4B Airflow Tech Biz Deal

By Al Barbarino

Madison Air Solutions Corp. said on Monday it has agreed to acquire German airflow technology maker ebm-papst at an enterprise value of $5.4 billion, with three law firms steering Madison on the planned expansion of its presence in the European ventilation market.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Blue States Say FTC Can't Regulate Trans Youth Health

By Spencer Brewer

A group of left-leaning states, including Massachusetts and California, asked a Texas federal court to toss a Federal Trade Commission suit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, saying Monday that the FTC's suit constitutes a "federal attack on state-regulated transgender healthcare."

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LITIGATION

ComEd Sues Chicago Hospital Over Unpaid $6.2M Electric Bill

By Joyce Hanson

Commonwealth Edison Co. has sued a Chicago hospital in Illinois state court, claiming the medical center located on the city's northwest side is in breach of contract for failure to pay its electric bills totaling more than $6.2 million.

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Chicago Pot Co. Recast $2M Investment As Gift, Suit Claims

By Jonathan Capriel

Two Ohio investors claimed they were duped into sinking nearly $2 million on a Chicago dispensary under the promise that they would be partial owners, only to learn that their Illinois-based business partners would later recast the investments as gifts, according to a lawsuit filed in Ohio federal court.

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Mass. Judge Vacates ACA Gender-Affirming Care Restriction

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Massachusetts federal judge handed a coalition of 21 states a win on their claim that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unlawfully issued Affordable Care Act reforms barring marketplace plans from requiring coverage for medical procedures used in gender-affirming care.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

7th Circ. Ruling May Reduce Litigation Risk For Text Marketers

The recent Seventh Circuit holding in Steidinger v. Blackstone Medical Services that unwanted marketing text messages are not telephone calls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act may strengthen companies' responses to presuit demand letters and early-stage litigation claims premised on do-not-call text theories, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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White House Aims To Shield Advisers Behind Law Firm EOs

By Emily Sawicki

The Trump administration and Justice Department "strongly object" to an Aug. 3 discovery order requiring them to name individuals involved in drafting and approving executive orders targeting law firms, amid their repeated refusal to hand over certain communications in a suit brought by the American Bar Association.

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Ex-DOJ Atty Says Trump's University Probes Were Political

By Hailey Konnath

Trump administration officials forged ahead with investigations into Harvard, Columbia and other universities despite its own lawyers raising legal concerns and, in some cases, finding "little to no factual predicate justifying opening them," according to a whistleblower disclosure from a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer made public Tuesday.

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Troutman Sidelined Associate After Heart Attack, Suit Says

By Patrick Hoff

Troutman Pepper Locke LLP derailed an associate's career because he took medical leave to recover from a heart attack and spoke up about senior attorneys' fraudulent billing practices, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New Jersey federal court.

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Trump Names 9 Judicial Picks Across 6 States

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced nine nominees Tuesday for judicial spots in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Alaska. 

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Bot Errors Doom Expert's Credibility In Tainted-Supplement Suit

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge Tuesday disposed of a U.S. Army nurse's lawsuit claiming supplement maker Thesis Nootropics sold products tainted with amphetamines, concluding that a key expert destroyed his credibility by submitting a report containing bot-generated false citations — much like errors for which the plaintiffs' counsel was recently sanctioned.

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Big Tech, PTAB Attys Urge Justices To Fix USPTO Power Grab

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit's refusal to curb the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director's power over instituting Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenges has allowed leaders to "wreak havoc" without accountability, top tech companies have warned the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Quill & Arrow Says Ford Can't Rehash Lemon Law Fee Fights

By Linda Chiem

Quill & Arrow LLP has asked a California federal judge to dump a "retaliatory" lawsuit alleging the personal injury firm saddled Ford Motor Co. with high-priced legal bills for work purportedly handled by virtual assistants overseas or nonlawyers, saying the automaker is trying to chill product liability litigation.

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​​​​​​​Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving multibillion-dollar mergers, corporate oversight, founder control, SPAC litigation, commercial contracts and attorney fees.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arete Law Group

Ashurst Perkins

Beck Bismonte

Covington & Burling

DiCello Levitt

Feinstein Doyle

Haynes Boone

Hengeler Mueller

Holland & Knight

Jones Day

Kasowitz LLP

Kilpatrick Townsend

Kirkland & Ellis

Knight Law Group

Levin Rojas

Littler Mendelson

Lowell & Associates

Mac Murray & Shuster

Manning Gross

Milbank LLP

Murphy Ball Stratton

O'Melveny & Myers

Paul Hastings

Quill & Arrow

Reed Smith

Steptoe LLP

Sterlington PLLC

Susman Godfrey

Troutman

Wigdor LLP

WilmerHale

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abbott Laboratories

Acushnet Holdings Corp.

Affordable Care LLC

Alcoa Corp.

Alliance for Automotive Innovation

American Bar Association

American College of Cardiology

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

Amicus

Apple Inc.

Archer Aviation Inc.

BDO LLP

BDO USA LLP

Chevron Corp.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Clearing House Payments Co. LLC

Cloudflare Inc.

Commonwealth Edison Co.

Computer & Communications Industry Association

EchoStar Corp.

Exelon Corp.

Ford Motor Co.

Google LLC

Government Accountability Project

H.I.G. Capital LLC

Harvard University

Intel Corp.

Kentucky Downs LLC

McKesson Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

NHK Spring

National Retail Federation Inc.

New York Post

Outliers Inc.

Presence

SAP AG

SAS Institute Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

ServiceTitan Inc.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

Tesla Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Software & Information Industry Association

The Western Union Co.

UniCredit

United Steelworkers

Verisk Analytics Inc.

Wells Fargo & Co.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

California Supreme Court

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

City and County of San Francisco, California

Cook County Circuit Court

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

National Labor Relations Board

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

U.S. Army

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio